Embroidery thread kit



Feb 14, 1950 M. E. BEARDSLEY EMBROIDERY THREAD KIT Filed Aug. 24, I1946INVENTOR.

MABEL E. BEARPJLEY BY Patented Feb. 14, 1.1950

UNITED g STATES PATENT OFFICE l I n g 2,491,653 Y `f EMBRQIDERY` THREADKIT I Mabel E. Beardsley, lSan Francisco, Calif. *t ApplicationAugust24, 1946, kSerial No. 692,844

This invention relates to kits or folders for use by women in holdingembroidery threads, needles and scissors. V y y -The object of theinventionis to provide a simpler, cheaper, and more convenient em'-broidery thread kit for the purpose indicated, than any prior device forthe purpose with which I am familiar.

Fig. 1 of the drawing is a plan view of my improved embroidery threadkit showing the thread pocket unbuttoned at one end.

Fig. 2 is an enlarged perspective view of the kit opened and with thethreads passing through and wound spirally about the thread pocket, thethread pocket indicated as lifted up at its free end to show thescissor, needle and thlmble pockets below.

Fig. 3 is a perspective view showing the kit closed and the outer flapbuttoned over.

Fig. 4 is a cross section of Fig. 3 taken along the line 4-4 .thereofshowing the relation of the sprally wound threads about the relativelynarrow elongated pocket.

Before describing the drawings in detail it is desired to state thatembroidery threads as used by women are generally sold in small skeinsof each color. In using these skeins they are generally cut through atone point, thus providing a small bunch of threads about a yard long andfrom which one thread at a time is Withdrawn, when required. As variouscolors are generally required in most embroidery work a woman soon hasfrom a half dozen to a dozen or more of various colors and partiallyused cut skeins on hand. With the present kit these different skeins areall laid in one bunch, and one end of the bunch is buttoned into thenarrow elongated tubular pocket of the kit with the major portion of thebunch extending from the open free end of the pocket so that one or moreof any color thread may be pulled out for use, and when finished theextending bunch of threads is wound spirally about the pocket (which ishingedly connected at one end only to the body of the kit to permit suchwinding) and the four flaps of the kit are folded over it and buttonedclosed.

In further detail the kit shown in the drawings comprises a piece offlat iiexible material, preferably soft thin felt, having a centraloblong body portion or panel l with extending side flaps 2, 3 andextending end flaps 4 and 5, all of such proportions as to overlap whenfolded inwardly as indicated in Fig. 3 and with flap 3 buttoned overonto flap 2 as with snap fasteners 6 or the like.

4 claims. (o1. `20s-t4) The outer corners of flaps 2 and 3 arepreferably rounded as.y indicated at 1 and the entire edge of the deviceextending around allv of the iiapsis preferably"pinked as shown at 8 sothat z there lwill befno ravelingsaswell as to make a cheap but nicelyfinished edge.

On the inner side of the body panel I is another piece of felt 9 ofsubstantially the width of the panel but of shorter length, pinked atthe edges, and sewed to the body as by side marginal stitches lil andtransverse row of stitches II spaced nearer to one end, thus leavingboth extreme ends open as pockets I2 and i3, the longer one I2 toreceive a pair of scissors as at I4 and the smaller one for a thimble,not shown, and the surface of the pocket being soft is adapted tofunction as a needle cushion with the needles stuck into it as at I5.The open ends of the pockets are spaced inwardly from' the ends of thebody panel l so as to both be readily accessible.

Normally lying upon the body pockets or panel 9 is the elongated threadholding folder or pocket I6 which has an extension I1 hingedly securedto the body panel l as by transverse stitching I8 passing through aninwardly folded extreme end margin I9 of the extension. This threadpocket I6 includes two side flaps I9 and 20 which are arranged tooverlap and fasten, as with snap fasteners 2| to any degree to snuglyhold the bunch of threads 22 in place, and when so closed over thethreads the assemblage is an elongated narrow tube about one half thewidth of the body panel I hingedly connected at one end only thereto asby the flexible extension or neck l1, all so that the free end of thetube may be lifted outward from the body panel I and the bunch ofextending threads spirally coiled about the tubular pocket as at 22 inFig. 2, the coiled mass lowered against the scissors pocket panel 9 onbody panel I, and the end aps 4 and 5 folded over it, and the side iiaps2 and 3 closed, all as shown in Fig. 3. Fig. 4 shows the relation of thefolded parts as described and numbered.

The thread holding pocket is preferably also made of a simple piece ofsoft felt, pinked along its edges as indicated.

Having thus described my improvements in an embroidery thread kit ofthis kind, what I claim' is:

1. In an embroidery thread kit a flat piece of exible materialcomprising a central oblong panel provided with extending aps at bothsides and both ends, and an elongated tubular thread pocket normallypositioned upon the central panel and hingedly secured thereto at oneend only and being free at the opposite end, said tubular thread pocketbeing of lesser width than the central panel to permit a bunch ofthreads extending from the pocket being wound spirally about it andclosed within the four flaps when folded inwardly over it.

2. In the construction set out in claim 1 said tubular thread pocketprovided with an elon gated neck at said one end of which the hingedconnection to the central panel is made.

3. In the construction set out in claim 1 said tubular thread pocketbeing an elongated strip of soft material rolled lengthwise upon itselfto form a tube and provided with means for adjusting the diameter of thetube to snugly grip various size bunches of threads.

4. In an embroidery thread kit. a at piece of flexible materialcomprising a central oblong panel provided with extending flaps at bothsides and both ends, a tubular thread pocket normally positioned upon,lthe central panel and hingedly secured ythereto at one end only andbeing free at the opposite end, saidtubulm thread pocket being narrowerthan said central oblongvpanel sufliciently to permit a bunch .ofthreads extending from within the tubular pocket being wound spirallyabout its outer sides, the tubular thread pocket being of a length tojust permit its being enclosed within the four aps when folded inwardlyover it.

MABEL E. BEARDSLEY.

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